Prezi

In Prezi, you can use frames to organize information in groups. For example, if you have a prezi about making dessert, you can organize the information in your presentation in two groups: dessert ideas and ingredients. Use frames to separate these two groups.

When related information is grouped together, you can avoid excessive panning in your prezi (which could result in motion sickness for your audience!) by clicking on the frame rather than individual objects - and showing that group of objects on screen at once.

Using frames:

• Choose Frame in the Bubble Menu (top left)
• Choose a Frame type
• Hold down the left mouse button and drag and drop to start drawing a Frame around your objects
• Hold down SHIFT while drawing to create 4:3, projector-friendly aspect ratios

Move/scale/rotate frames and their contents:

• Moving/scaling/rotating the frame will move/scale/rotate its contents together.
• To remove an object from a frame, drag the object out of the frame at any time.
• Hold Alt while dragging or clicking on a frame to move, scale or rotate it separately. (You will see the zebra turn orange)
• Double-clicking on the frame will show the four control points. Change the size of the frame by dragging the control points. 

• Watch a video on moving/scaling/rotating frames and contents: Grouping with frames

Hidden frames:

• Use hidden frames to organize your content without the added visual weight of the frames. This is ideal for highlighting details on a large image, or block of text.

• NOTE: Hidden frames do not group their contents, and can be moved, scaled or rotated separately.

• If you prefer to present your prezis without predefined paths, just define the large groups of content in your prezi, and let the hover feedback of an invisible frame guide you during presenting.
• You can choose 'Capture View' in the Path menu, to generate a hidden frame that fills your actual view. This will add a path step as well.
• Watch a video on the different uses of hidden frames: New features in Prezi (Spring 2010).